Re: libfluidsynth1 depends on libjack

[Tim Janik <timj gnu org>]

Thanks, our newest AppImages now run on Fedora-28, built on Bionic.

On 29.09.2018 15:05, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
>    Hi!
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:30:01PM +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
> > Our AppImage includes libfluidsynth1 as hard Beast dependency, but that in turn
> > depens on libjack-jackd2-0 which is *not* included in the AppImage. The reason
> > libjack.so.0.1.0 is not included is that it's blacklisted by the AppImage tools,
> > because it tends to be tightly coupled to jackd:
> >
> >   https://github.com/AppImage/AppImages/blob/master/excludelist
> >
> > So basically, because of Beast depending on libfluidsynth.so.1, and that
> > depending on libjack.so.0.1.0, Beast cannot be run on Fedora eventhough it does
> > not *USE* libjack.so.0.1.0:
> >
> > $ ./beast-0.13.0-alpha-341-g36a856c.x64.AppImage
> > ./beast-0.13.0-alpha-341-g36a856c.x64.AppImage: error while loading shared
> > libraries: libjack.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > Can you look into whether it's feasible for us to build a libfluidsynth version
> > (on bionic) that's good enough to fulfill the requirements of libbse, but not
> > link against libjack?
>
> It is relatively simple. Fluidsynth is switching to cmake, automake is
> deprecated, so here is a shell script that will build fluidsynth using cmake
> without all kinds of stuff we don't need anyway.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> set -e -x
> wget --continue https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/archive/v1.1.11.tar.gz
>
> tar xf v1.1.11.tar.gz
> mkdir -p build
> cd build
> cmake ../fluidsynth-1.1.11 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/beast \
>   -Denable-dbus=0 \
>   -Denable-ipv6=0 \
>   -Denable-jack=0 \
>   -Denable-midishare=0 \
>   -Denable-network=0 \
>   -Denable-oss=0 \
>   -Denable-pulseaudio=0 \
>   -Denable-readline=0 \
>   -Denable-alsa=0 \
>   -Denable-lash=0
> make
> make install
>
>    Cu... Stefan

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Yours sincerely,
Tim Janik

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